Artifacts Collection: West Indies/Caribbean

BOX Pt. 1a
Books
Child of the Sun: A Cuban Legend
Juan Bobo and the Horse of Seven Colors: A Puerto Rican Legend
The Magic Feather: A Jamaican Legend
Night Owl and the Rooster: A Haitian Legend
Teacher’s Booklet (inventory list and activities)

Magazines
National Geographic
“The Bahamas: Boom Times and Buccaneering” (September 1982)
“The Dominican Republic: Caribbean Comeback” (October 1977)
“Haiti: Beyond Mountains, More Mountains” (January 1976)
“La Isabela: Foothold in the New World” (January 1992)
“Our Search for the True Columbus Landfall” (November 1986)
“Paradise Comes of Age: The U.S. Virgin Islands” (January 1992)
“The Seething Caribbean” (February 1981)

Pictures
Chocolate in the Pod
Cocoa Fruit

Realia
Cacao beans (cocoa)
Paper flags (miniature) (Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Haiti)
Woman’s black dance skirt w/straw appliques (Jamaica)

BAG Pt. 1b
Maps
Close Up: USA: Florida / Sun, Sand, and the Tang of Salt Air
Making of America - West Indies / West Indies (2, identical)
Spain in the Americas / The Grand Exchange
Tourist Islands of the West Indies / West Indies & Central America
Where did Columbus Discover America? / Threading the Islands: Which track fits?

Posters
Trinidad and Tobago: Tobaggo Girl / (info and reproducibles)

Websites
Blank & Outline Maps (http://www.geography.about.com/cs/blankoutlinemaps/index.htm)

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